I saw that the US illiteracy rate has risen from 19% to 28% in the past couple of years, I think 5. The only silver lining is our rating globally has remained unchanged because the entire world has gotten worse because of Covid.
I've also been reading that they suspect it's because they took phonetics out of teaching.
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u/Eliteguard999 Jan 02 '25
“Five years olds can read” but the age 50+ customers at my grocery store I manage can’t read a sign to save their fucking lives.